Lexical Definition

‎שָׁכַר‎ shâkar (shaw-kar') be drunk ^H:V
a primitive root

(be filled with) drink (abundantly), (be, make) drunk(-en), be merry. (Superlative of ‎שָׁקָה‎.)

• to become tipsy
• in a qualified sense, to satiate with astimulating drink or (figuratively) influence

1) to be or become drunk or drunken, be intoxicated
1a) (Qal) to become drunken
1b)(Piel) to make drunken, cause to be drunk
1c) (Hiphil) to cause to be drunk
1d) (Hithpael) to make oneself drunk

See Greek: μέθη · μεθύσκω · μεθύσκω · μεθύω

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. [‎שָׁכַר‎] verb be, or beocme, drunk, drunken (Late Hebrew id., derived species and derivatives; Eccl 40:18; Eccl 40:20 ‎שכר‎ strong drink; Arabic be drunken, also be full, fill; Assyrian šikaru; = ‎שֵׁכָר‎, šikaru, drunken, perhaps also verb šakâru; Ethiopic : Aramaic ‎שִׁכְרָא‎, = ‎שְׁכָר‎, especially date-wine (Löw p. 125), compare be drunken, usually (derived species) defile, deform, etc.; from ‎שֵׁכָר‎, Egyptian t-av-k-±ra WMM^As.u.Eur.102, Greek σίκερα, Lewy^{Fremdw. 81}); —

Qal Perfect 3 plural ‎שָֽׁכְרוּ‎ Isa 29:9 Imperfect 3 masculine singular ‎וַיִּשְׁכָּ֑ר‎Gen 9:21, 3 masculine plural ‎יִשְׁכָּר֑וּן‎ Isa 49:26, etc.; Imperative masculine plural ‎שִׁכְרוּ‎ Jer 25:27; Song 5:1 Infinitive construct ‎לְשָׁכְרָה‎ Hag 1:6 Passive participle ‎שְׁכֻרַת‎Isa 51:21 (Ges^{«GKC:130b»§ 130b} Lag^{BN 60}); — become drunken Gen 9:21 (J), of social drinking Gen 43:34 (J), Song 5:1, token of plenty Hag 1:6 figurative of nations staggering helplessly under calamity Jer 25:27; Jer 51:21(‎וְלֹא מִיָּ֑יִן‎), of Nah 3:11 of infatuation Isa 29:9 (‎וְלֹא יַיִן‎), of disgrace Lam 4:21, self-destruction, ‎׳‎‎כֶּעָסִיס דָּמָם יִשׁ‎ Isa 49:26. Pi`el make drunken: Imperfect 3 masculine singular suffix ‎וַיְשַׁכְּרֵהוּ‎ 2Sam 11:13, literal; figurative 1 singular (suffix of people) ‎וַאֲשַׁכְּרֵם‎ (read ‎׳‎‎וָ‎) Isa 63:6 (subject ‎׳‎‎י‎) I made them drunk in my wrath (but MSS Ges Hi Ew Che Kit Marti and others ‎וָאֲשַׁבְּרֵם‎ I brake them in pieces); Participle feminine singular, of Babylonian, ‎מְשַׁכֶּרֶת בָּלהָֿרֶץ‎ Jer 51:7 compare Infinitive abs. ‎שַׁכֵּר‎ Hab 2:15 (i. e. terrorizing nations; read probably ‎׳‎‎הַשְׁקֵה וְאַף שׁ‎ We Now). Hiph`il id.: Perfect 1 singular ‎וְהִשְׁכַּרְתִּ֫י‎ Jer 51:27 (subject ‎׳‎‎י‎) i.e. make princes helpless, ‎וְהִשְׁכַּרְתִּים‎ vJer 51:39 Imperative masculine plural suffix ‎הַשְׁכִּירֻהוּ‎ object Moab, i.e. make helpless and disgraced Jer 48:26 Imperfect 1 singular ‎אַשְׁכִּיר חְצַּי מִדָּם‎ Deut 32:42. — Ruben^{JQ xi (1889), 446} proposes ‎מַשְׁכִּירוֺת‎ Hos 7:5 for ‎משׁך ידו את‎. Hithpa`el Imperfect 2 feminine singular ‎תִּשְׁתַּכָּרִין‎ 1Sam 1:14 how long wilt thou make thyself drunken [a drunken spectacle] ?

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